Recent content by Despoiler

Passive in this case just means the card itself has no fan. The cooling is done by other methods that AMD does not provide. The cooling depends on the rack and the building HVAC setup. There are a couple ways of doing it that I typically see. You can have AC per rack where the full rack is a...

They don't have coolers though. They are passively cooled. It is not as efficient as having a dedicated cooler and fan(s) in a single GPU system. Look at MI25 vs Vega 64. MI25 has a 300w TDP and Vega64 is 295. Keep in mind these are quoted as board power. In other words 2x 8pin = 300w...

Sure guy. He literally proved what AMD stated, but you are all conspiracy and tin foil hats. Cliff notes on chip manufacturing, it's completely normal. General point. The manufacturer will always be the most accurate source. They have masks. They aren't using calipers and photos to...

It's 486mm2. It is in AMD's white paper for Vega. https://radeon.com/_downloads/vega-whitepaper-11.6.17.pdf

I think there are two things AMD needs to work on. We've seen countless articles and user anecdotes that many Vega cards don't need to be run at 1.2v. It would seem AMD set an arbitrary number to harvest as many usable chips as possible. GF just doesn't seem cut it with GPU chips. Hence why...

This is the first time I've ever used this. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ This seems like gross mismanagement of RTG by Raja. PS stated as dev tool (Raja), to PS as driver magic(Raja), now back to the original plan of PS being dev tool(Su).

My recollection was that the information came out on the AMD subReddit for the post of that initial performance video. Possibly and AMA that happen at the same time. 100% sure that one of the AMD reps chimed up that the drivers were modified Fury drivers. Debugging enabled with some tweaks to...

Yes "if". If is a conditional. We simply don't know if primitive shaders is working or not. If they aren't we don't know why. As PS was folded into driver functionality, neither Apple nor any end user wouldn't have any idea what PS additional performance "should be". Talk of lawsuits is...

If there is a hardware issue it would make sense they fixed it for the 12nm Vega refresh slated for next year.

Depends what you are doing with the software. The overlay that is coming with Adrenalin is relatively straightforward I think. What AMD is trying to do with DBSR and primitive shaders I would rank more towards difficult. DBSR is a new way of doing things for them. Primitive shaders no one...

DBSR we know is in a working state, but we don't know how widely it's being applied. AMD said they have it enabled for the 'energy' spec perfview bench.

We will soon find out if current Vega is borked or not(Adrenalin). I'm guessing there is no issue and it's exactly like Raja said. Software is hard on this one. The tell is that a shot of adrenaline makes you stronger. Why call it that if perf isn't going up? If there was a hardware issue...

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Star-Wars-Battlefront-2-2017-Spiel-60678/Specials/Technik-Test-1240296/ Another solid showing from Vega. AMD doesn't have a driver out for the beta yet. It's possible they could extend their lead. The game is well optimized for both camps in DX11. I seriously...

Based on what criteria? That was a rhetorical question btw.... Nvidia released their Forza 7 driver last week. The game releases next week. Reviews are already out there. It seems implausible to me that there are significant optimizations to come. Dirt 4 and PUBG.

That makes 3 titles where Vega is in a dominant to straight up crushing lead @ 1080p compared to the 1080ti. Seemingly a reversal from the Fiji performance tends. It's intriguing to be sure. Are we beyond outliers? My gut is telling me that we will see more.